River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

zero on the 2lst, the latter record lie ng at
Robinson, where the cod was so intense
that the people feared TO venture from their
houses
THE death of Major W. W. Van Antwerp.
postmaster at Jackson, Mich, occurred at
his residence in that city on the Dist
II a saloon at opelousas, La, dispute
over politics ON the 21st ended in the fatal
shooting of three men.
A FIRE on the 22d nearly destroyed the
village of MOntevdeO, Mimi
TIE wife and daughter of Ed McElroy,
pilot on the steamer Helen Meade, were
burned TO death on the 22d in their resi-
dence at yicksburg. Miss
ADvIcEs Of the 22d say that as many
sixty persons persisted from hunger and
cold during the prevalence of the recent
blizzard in Kansas.
on the 22d James Lundy, his wife and
three children, of Lima, O., were fatally in
jured In q natural gas explosion, Which
wrecked their dwelling
OK the 22d Mrs Magdaline BOggs, the
oldest resident Of Indiana, celebrated her
one hundred and fourth birthday at her
home in Milton Wayne County.
NEAR Delphi, Ind, David Hildebrand and
his son Fred were struck by Wabash train
on the 22d while crossing the track and
were killed
THE discovery of gold and silver in large
quantities on the Hiawasser river in North
Carolina was reported on the 22d Six
thousand acres had been explored
The product OF flour at Minneapolis dur
ing the year was on the 22d reported at
6.6l6. ZOO barrels
A CORONER found over $40, 600 secreted
in the bed of dead miser at Minneapolis
on the 23d
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at Birmingham, Ala, on the 23d for the
murder of Cash Mosely Ccolored).
DANIEL FULTON, found guilty on the 23d
at Corunna, Mich. OF numbering his wife,
was sentenced TO spend his life in prison in
solitary confinement
NEAR Fifield, Wis, broken rail wrecked
Wisconsin Central passenger train on the
sd and one man was killed and twenty
others were wounded, some of them seri
ously.
The Legislature of South Carolina has
passed law making it a misdemeanoI for
tn desmen to facilUat the sale OF goods
by offer .ng purchasers an iDducement 10
buy in the way of prizes or gifts
The wife of a farmer living near Newman,
H., got into quarrel on the 23d with her
servany RI, wa CHI eliminated in a fight in
which both women were fatally stabbed
TRAIN on the Minnesota & Northwestern
railroad was derailed on the 23d near Leaf
River ILL.,, and thrown down an embank-
ment. and about forty persons were in
jur, d
Ten persons were frozen TO death in Car
son County, Tex, during the recent cold
spell.
A FIRE the other day destroyed Daniel
J. Corkery's stable in Chicago, and twenty
| eight horses lost their lives
Ex-Governor ALGER of Michigan, repeat
ed his ,arity OF last year on the 26th, Civ
ing clothing to i've hundred newsboys, and
serving families
Ii Lou S. ana and Mississippi, snow fell on
| the 25th TO the depth of eight inches
FIRE on the Goth destroyed forty build
| ings at Wakefield, Mich. inc uding the bank,
! theater. pos -otfice. cloth ny and general
stores and dozen saloons. Loss, $780,
600
1 THERE were 3. 5O4 niles of new railroad
| built in the Northwest during 1887.
IT was said ON the 25th that the reports
I about n coal famine and suff ring for The
I necessities OF life in Kansas were largely
eXGggera ed
A FIRE in the State prison at Michigan
City Ind. a few days ago destroyed the
I entire plant of Phelps, Dodge d Palmer, of
/ Chicago ussd in the manufacture of boots
and shoes Loss. 100000.
Hoes recently attacked and killed Mrs
/ Sarah Ewing, sixty years of age, mother Of
/ a farmer near Sheibyvile, Ind
On the 25th Captain William ] Haines, of
, s.. Louis. celebrated his one hundredth
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